Gilded flicker
Colaptes chrysoides
- Large woodpecker
- Pale brown cap and nape
- Pale gray face, chin, and throat
- Pale brown back and wings barred with black
- Black crescent on upper breast
- Beige breast and belly spotted heavily with black
- White rump (obvious in flight)
- Tail dark above
- Tail and underwings are entirely yellow below, and retricies and
primaries have yellow shafts
Adult male:
Similar species:
Could only be confused with other flickers. The Gilded
Flicker has similar wing patterning to Yellow-shafted Flicker, but
lacks the red at the rear of the head, has a pale brown cap and
pale gray face, a paler brown back, and the male sports a red
rather than black whisker. Similarly it differs from Red-shafted
Flicker by its paler overall coloration and its yellow underwings
and undertail.